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With Rich off at Donington WSBK round, Jim put together an all American team with the help of Scott Bolton.  The guys started of with the sad news of the passing of Marc van der Straten.  The founder of Marc VDS was 78.  After discussing the rider market news they jumped into the racing action.  

Moto3 was a unique race as Brian Uriarte secured pole and lead almost the entire race.  Quiles briefly led but lost the front, recovered and finished second.  At this point Max has one had firmly on the championship trophy.

Moto2 saw Ivan Ortola lead from start to finish. It was a great ride and one of the nest last laps as Ortola's tires were gone and he was under pressure from a much quicker Holgado.  Gonzalez rode a smart race to collect points and extent his championship lead.

Finally in MotoGP, Marc Marquez lead every lap of both the sprint and the Sunday main event.  It was total domination.  The Track House riders fined behind Marc in both races.  Ogura is now 14 points behind Martin, with Marc only four more points behind.  Actually the top five riders are all in a fight for the title at the halfway point in the season.

To all of our listeners, please support the show financially if you can and don’t forget to connect with us via the social media channels and spread the word amongst your like-minded race fan friends. In the MotoGP Sports Entertainment Group age, we need subscribers and downloads to help us push through the door for access to teams and riders. Your support will help us in trying to achieve those aims and keep MotoPod up there as the longest running and most heavily supported motorcycle road racing podcast. Cheers and here’s to an action packed 2026. Zoom Zoom…….

This episode, Karl and Danny bring you all the latest from round 4 of the British Superbikes at Snetterton. The three mile airfield circuit gave us a different winner over the three races. Kyle Ryde didn't have it all his own way and a number of technical issues saw some of the front runners dropping out. Your host also cover the real road racing from the Tandragee 100. This 5.3 mile course in Northern Ireland attracts competitors from around the globe and takes place on public roads in County Armagh. Then we move to Japan for the 8 Hour Suzuka Endurance race that was dominated by one team and split second decisions made all of the difference. 

 

To all of our listeners, please support the show financially if you can and don’t forget to connect with us via the social media channels and spread the word amongst your like-minded race fan friends. In the MotoGP Sports Entertainment Group age, we need subscribers and downloads to help us push through the door for access to teams and riders. Your support will help us in trying to achieve those aims and keep MotoPod up there as the longest running and most heavily supported motorcycle road racing podcast. Cheers and here’s to an action packed 2026. Zoom Zoom……

Scott and Jake review MotoAmerica races at The Ridge in Shelton, Washington.  The relatively young circuit has a wide range of features and significant elevation change.  At the first rainy wet weekend of the MotoA season SDK shows he is quite serious about winning Superbike races, Herrin recovers points in Supersport, Kayla secures yet another pole, and the Talent Cup title fight begins to boil over.  Also, Super Hooligans produces firsts for the Arch team and Northwest talent Andy DiBrino.  

Apologies for the dismal recording quality - the infamous Zoom "he's lisping, is he having a stroke?" struck this recording exposing Jake's inexperience once more.

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To all of our listeners, please support the show financially if you can and don’t forget to connect with us via the social media channels and spread the word amongst your like-minded race fan friends. In the MotoGP Sports Entertainment Group age, we need subscribers and downloads to help us push through the door for access to teams and riders. Your support will help us in trying to achieve those aims and keep MotoPod up there as the longest running and most heavily supported motorcycle road racing podcast. Cheers and here’s to an action packed 2026. Zoom Zoom...

Ahead of this weekends 8th round of the WSBK season, Rich, Danny & Karl get together to talk all things Donny. The show is primarily based around last years interviews, but the guys also delve into the history of the Donington Park track. As a track day specialist, Karl takes us on a lap of the circuit and they then discuss some of the runners and riders for the upcoming races. Rich will be at Donington on interview duty again, with talks planned with Jake Dixon, Albert Arenas, Valentin Debise and Miguel Oliveira. If you are a financial subscriber to the show, feel free to throw in a question or two and, if he can, Rich will pose your inquiry.

In terms of the 2025 Donington Park interviews, you can find these as follows; Tom Booth Amos (1:00.36), Alvaro Bautista (1:12.13), Chloe Jones (1:24.46), Jaume Masia (1:37.44), Stefano Manzi (1:49.37) & Jeremy Alcoba (2:00.03). Following the interview and after the outro music, you will also find 3 media centre rider debriefs, featuring Tom Booth-Amos, Toprak Razgatlıoğlu and Scott Redding.

To all of our listeners, please support the show financially if you can and don’t forget to connect with us via the social media channels and spread the word amongst your like-minded race fan friends. In the MotoGP Sports Entertainment Group age, we need subscribers and downloads to help us push through the door for access to teams and riders. Your support will help us in trying to achieve those aims and keep MotoPod up there as the longest running and most heavily supported motorcycle road racing podcast. Cheers and here’s to an action packed 2026. Zoom Zoom…….

Jim returns from holiday to join Rich and discuss all the action from Assen.  They cover the news of riders and what teams they will be racing for next year.  The other major news of note is that Yamaha will be the sole supply of new Moto3 bikes based on the R7.  

The racing action was as action packed as ever and the Moto3 race was won by Quiles with a great outside move at the chicane.  With this win it seems like Quiles has both hands firmly on this championship

Moto action saw Alonso take his second consecutive pole and this time he was able to convert this to a win.  The uptick in Alonso performance now makes HRC's decision to sign him to the MotoGP class seem like less of a gamble.

Finally it was all Trackhouse as Fernandez won the Sprint and Ogura won the Sunday main event.  

To all of our listeners, please support the show financially if you can and don’t forget to connect with us via the social media channels and spread the word amongst your like-minded race fan friends. In the MotoGP Sports Entertainment Group age, we need subscribers and downloads to help us push through the door for access to teams and riders. Your support will help us in trying to achieve those aims and keep MotoPod up there as the longest running and most heavily supported motorcycle road racing podcast. Cheers and Zoom Zoom…….